Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoad admitted that Hoad had been great. "I think I've played better in Australia," he said, "but this was good tennis." So good, in fact, that Amateur King Hoad promptly decided he was now ready for the pros, flew to New York to discuss a fat professional contract with Tennis Promoter Jack Kramer...
...World War II. As soon as word came of another jump in the cost-of-living index, which meant an automatic wage boost for steelworkers, statisticians swiftly added the change to a mosaic of other figures on increased costs, including the industry-wide wage hike called for in the contract signed last year. Soon after, U.S. Steel President Clifford F. Hood announced a steel price boost averaging $6 a ton. Before the week was out, the nation's other steel companies moved to make Big Steel's increase industrywide, thus adding half a billion dollars to the annual...
INTERCONTINENTAL SNARK missile is going into large-scale production, will be first missile with 5,000-mile range assigned to operational units of Strategic Air Command. Air Force will give Northrop Aircraft, Inc. a $73 million contract to turn out subsonic Snark...
BIGGEST DEFENSE ORDER since World War II for General Electric Co. for developmental work was disclosed by Air Force. Contract is for $158 million worth of G.E. missile nose-cones to go on Atlas ICBM and Thor IRBM...
Finding the People. Harry Belafonte is currently one of the briskest-selling items in show business. He has signed a ten-year, $10,000-a-year contract with RCA Victor, is negotiating a three-picture deal with 20th Century-Fox and a contract with NBC to do four TV spectaculars a year for five years. He has also teamed up with Ed Murrow to produce a See It Now show on the quiet pools of native culture that have survived the intrusions of modern life, e.g., remote hamlets of the Appalachians, tiny islands off the Georgia coast. But whatever else...